Reality Keeps Score I have to admit something. I really didn’t see this one coming. If you’d told me a year ago that I’d be opening our mid-year update talking about how much of my summer has been dominated by World Cup soccer, I would not have believed you. What first grabbed me was the physicality, and I don’t think watching on TV does it any justice. These players are flying all over the field at full speed, sacrificing their bodies, absorbing contact, getting knocked around, getting back up, and doing it all over again. Every once in a while there’s a player or two who looks like they’re auditioning for an Academy Award. But if you watch enough matches, you quickly realize the flopping isn’t what the game is about. The overwhelming majority of what you’re watching is toughness and discipline and conditioning. It’s the willingness to do the things that oftentimes nobody notices.
